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yasmin dyauh prthivi catariksamotam manah pranasica sarvaihtamevaikam janatha atmananamanyo vaco vimuncathaamrtasy esa setuhIn Him are woven the sky, the earth and outer space, as well as the mind and all thevital airs; know Him alone as the one atman and give up all other talk; He is thebridge to immorality.It was mentioned in Part One of this series that that Aitreya Upanisad states,prajnanam brahma, "Brahman is great knowledge. " Furthermore it is said,sarvam tat prajna-netramprajnane pratisthitamprajna netro-lokahprajna pratisthaThe great knowledge (of Brahman) is the ground of everything in the universe; itguides the universe; it supports it.What the Upanisads TeachPart FourBrahman is Antaryami, the Inner ControllerChapter 7 of Part III of Brhadaranyaka Upanisad is called the Antaryami Brahmana.Here Uddhalaka, the son of Aruna, questions Yajnavalkya about the antaryami, theinner controller. The sage replies:This Self of yours who is present within but different from earth, whom the earthdoes not know, whose body is the earth, and who controls the earth from within--Heis the inner controller, the immortal.The sage then speaks twenty passages that repeat the themes of this one, describinghow the Self is the inner controller of water, fire, sky, air, heaven, the sun, the fourquarters, the moon and the stars, ether, darkness, light, all living entities, the lifebreath,speech, the eye, ear, mind, skin, the individual self, and semen.These passages of Yajnavalkya Muni are repeated in Subala Upanisad with a fewchanges. One significant addition is that the antaryami is referred to as Paramatma.Another addition is this line:esa sarvabhutantaratma apahatapapma divyo eko narayanah"He is the indwelling Self of all living entities. He is free of all sin. He is the divineOne, Narayana. "Chandogya Upanisad proclaims:5